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<p><i>Dead End in Norvelt</i> is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, <i>Dead End in Norvelt</i> is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is “grounded for life” by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack’s way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-f

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Author

Gantos, Jack, author

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780329926212

Category

humor

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.72 / 5 (16,170 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13